3.) Guards! Guards! - Predictable for about 200 pages (dragon becomes king) but still entertaining. Night Watch is where the series found the sort of tone I liked (Jingo maybe but I haven't read that one yet).

Still reading:

Lords and Ladies - 100 pages in and the plot is barely moving forward.

Snuff - Woo! Post-THUD! Vimes!

Feet of Clay - I like the Angua, Carrot and Cheery bits (and Vimes of course) but the Fred and Nobby parts are a bore. Still, more mystery behind it than Guards! Guards! (which, yes, I like but I just don't like as much as the other ones).

Hmm...
Well I already said I love the Granny Weatherwax books, but I reread WITCHES ABROAD yesterday, and I really enjoyed that! Also, rereading WYRD SISTERS after reading Macbeth was cool.
I also really loved UNSEEN ACADEMICALS. I thought that was fantastic!

So far, my favorite Discworld book is definitely Going Postal. I love the plot and the message behind it about how businesses ought to take responsibility. Also I just instantly adored Moist's character, and the lovely Miss Dearheart, of course.

SpyViolette wrote:So far, my favorite Discworld book is definitely Going Postal. I love the plot and the message behind it about how businesses ought to take responsibility. Also I just instantly adored Moist's character, and the lovely Miss Dearheart, of course.

Agree

Followed by making money and I do like feet of clay alot too. I think the story of the Golems is one of the most interesting and involving parts of the discworld books!

Some say Thud is their favorite, I pretty much skimmed over this one. I will reread it of course!, sooner than planned I think. It seems to be a favorite

They're the best written, the most tightly edited and have the best stories out of all his work. Most importantly they showcase the talent that makes him a truly great writer, his ability to take a subject, an idea, a concept e.t.c and unearth the very essence of the thing.

It's all about the sun master, white snow and red blood and the sun. Always has been.

Nightwatch is an utterly superb character exploration of Vimes, putting him in uncomfortable territory. We see the young patrician who is completely fascinating, Ankh Morpork as a lawless city, the young Nobby and Colon, and whilst there are elements of magic and fantasy (going back in time, the history monks etc.) none of it feels contrived - it all fits so well. This is a properly weighty novel about a very well rounded character, an event which makes a city what it is, and raises interesting points about our own society, but again, it's above books like Snuff and Thud! in my list because it doesn't feel like its smothering us with the character (the former did) or forcing some of those points on us (the latter did). It's a perfect Pratchett, my favourite book in my favourite series, the Watch books.

Thud! is my second favorite book and contains my single favorite badass scene in anything i've read, or seen if it comes to that. "Where's my cow" will be hard to top.

My favorite is Night Watch. Despite it being a better made Quantum Leap i found its realism and honesty to be its best qualities. The sense of dread you feel as the world turns to hell it tangible. and the right amount of humor to break the tension. In a story about time travel in a fantasy world it is the most "real" book in the series. its not one to start with, you need the previous books to make NW's significance stand out, but stand it does.

"The reason an author needs to know the rules of grammar isn't so he or she never breaks them, but so the author knows how to break them."

1 night watch. just love the idear of a young nobby nobbs. fantastic use of time travil, love the idear of meeting a younger sam. a nice hint to the back story of vetinari. i want to know more about just how he became Patrician of Ankh-Morpork, as with all the best of his books asks more questions in my mind. leaveing me wanting more.

2 guards,guards. i love to see the relation ship unfold between sam and Lady Sybil Ramkin. after all lets face it. if it was not for her he would still be a drunk.

3 eric. the first of his books i read. think i was about 17. i found it on the back seat of a bus. i just fell in love with Terry Pratchett.

4 snuff. i have only just finished it!

5 mort. i love DEATH. but i want to know more about his man servent albert. how did he get the job? but that is what i love about Pratchett. He wont tell you every thing.